Topics

Faraid: the fixed shares

• Faraid explained: how the fixed shares actually work — The Qur'anic fractions, who takes them, how exclusion changes the answer, and where the four schools diverge.

The four madhahib

• The four madhahib on inheritance: where they agree and where they part — The agreed core, and the defined points of difference — the grandfather, distant kin, radd, and the named cases.

Probate & estate administration

• Probate in Canada: the process, the cost, the delay — What probate is for, what it costs in each province, and why a clearance certificate holds everything up.

Executors & estate trustees

• You've been named executor. What happens first? — The role in plain terms: what an estate trustee actually does, the personal liability involved, and how the janazah time

Dying without a will

• Dying without a will in Canada: what actually happens — How provincial intestacy formulas work, why they almost never match faraid, and what a family can still do afterwards.

Registered accounts, insurance & property

• Beneficiary designations: the quiet defeat of an Islamic will — How RRSPs, TFSAs, pensions and insurance pass outside the estate, and what that does to the fixed shares.

Finding & registering a will

• Finding a will in Canada when there is no registry — Where wills are actually kept, what diligent search means, and what happens when the original cannot be found.

Family, marriage & guardianship

• Guardianship and children's shares in an Islamic will — Naming a guardian, holding a minor's vested share, and where classical wilayah meets Canadian best-interests analysis.

Death, janazah & the first days

• Janazah and the first 72 hours: a practical guide — Burial permits, coroners, releasing funds for the funeral, and finding the will before anything is cleared out.

Disputes, claims & challenges

• Wills variation in British Columbia and the faraid distribution — Section 60 of WESA, the Grewal decision, and what BC families intending Islamic shares should do about it.

Tax on death

• Tax on death in Canada for Muslim families — The deemed disposition, the spousal rollover, probate fees, and how each one changes the pool the shares apply to.